Flexibility Improvement on Energy Consumption of Punching Machine Based on Green Manufacturing Method at PT Buana Intan Gemilang

School of Industrial Engineering Telkom University, Bandung, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author : firda.maw@gmail.com

Abstract

These days, Green Manufacturing has established become a new technology for professional engineers and manufacturing workers to be an important part in the business world. Green Manufacturing was created to reflect the new manufacturing paradigm techniques to make something become more eco-efficient by reducing the energy consumption. PT Buana Intran Gemilang is one of Textile Company that produce curtain and prayer rug. In the production this company use a Jacquard punching machine designed to cut a hole in material such as card stock. The machine works manually with the flexibility less than 90 percent that led to the longest production time in meeting the demand, thus causing the electrical energy released for this machine is also very high. On the basis of these problems required a system to improve the flexibility of the machine in order to reduce energy consumption and make the company become greener environmentally friendly. From this research generated an automation system based on green manufacturing method which will be applied on a jacquard punching machine that can increase flexibility machine to be more than 90 percent. This system has saving the electricity consumption of 2092 KWh every making a complete fabric pattern.